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Nepos2

Nepos2 · m

a grandson, son's

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Where it lives

Genethliacon ad Ausonium Nepotem 4 · 233.92/10k
Epistularum 6 · 75/10k
Versus Paschales Pro Augusto Dicti 1 · 51.55/10k
De Regibus 1 · 22.57/10k
Valeriani Duo 2 · 19.65/10k
Parentalia 4 · 15.39/10k
Timotheus 1 · 15.36/10k
Helius 2 · 13.95/10k
Epodon 3 · 9.98/10k
Verus 2 · 9.72/10k
Divus Augustus 13 · 9.69/10k
Tiberius 8 · 8.8/10k

Densest 12 of 144 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. nĕpos — Lewis & Short

nĕpos, ōtis, m. and f. (v. infra) [Sanscr. nap-tar, descendant; Gr. a)neyio/s, nephew; cf. ne/podes; cf. neptis, Germ. Neffe],

I a grandson, son's or daughter's son: primo gradu sunt supra pater, mater; infra filius, filia. Secundo gradu sunt supra avus, avia; infra nepos, neptis, Dig. 38, 10, 1; cf.: nepos quoque dupliciter intellegitur, ex filio vel filia natus, ib. 38, 10, 10, § 13; Cic. Deiot. 1, 2: Metellum multi filii, filiae, nepotes, neptes in rogum imposuerunt. id. Tusc. 1, 35, 85: Q. Pompeii ex filiā nepos, id. Brut. 76, 263: M. Catonis censorii ex filio nepos, Gell. 13, 20 (19), 3; Dig. 44, 4, 18: sororis nepos, Tac. A. 4, 44.—

2 For neptis, a granddaughter (ante- and post-class.): Ilia dia nepos, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 70 P. (Ann. v. 56 Vahl.); Inscr. Grut. 477, 5; ib. 678, 11.—

B Transf.

1 A brother's or sister's son, a nephew (post-Aug.): tres instituit heredes sororum nepotes, Suet. Caes. 83; Hier. Ep. 60, n. 9; Eutr. 7, 1.—

2 In gen., a descendant (poet.): filius an aliquis magnā de stirpe nepotum? Verg. A. 6, 864: in nepotum Perniciem, Hor. C. 2, 13, 3: Caesar, ab Aeneā qui tibi fratre nepos (to Cupid), Ov. P. 3, 3, 62: magnanimos Remi nepotes, Cat. 58, 5; Luc. 7, 207: haec tetigit tuos urtica nepotes, Juv. 2, 128.—

3 A favorite: omnes profecto mulieres te amant ... Py. ... nepos sum Veneris, Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 50. —

4 Of animals (post-Aug.), Col. 6, 37, 4; 7, 2, 5.—

5 Of plants, a sucker, Col. 4, 10, 2; 4, 6, 5.—

C Fig., a spendthrift, prodigal (syn.: ganeo, asotus): quis ganeo, quis nepos, quis adulter? Cic. Cat. 2, 4, 7: in populi Romani patrimonio nepos, id. Agr. 1, 1, 2: profusus nepos, id. Quint. 12, 40: quantum simplex hilarisque nepoti Discrepet, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 193; 1, 15, 36.

2. Nĕpos — Lewis & Short

Nĕpos, ōtis, m.,

I a surname in the gens Cornelia. So Cornelius Nepos, a Roman historian, the friend of Cicero, Atticus, and Calullus; author of the work De Viris Illustribus, a portion of which is preserved, Gell. 15, 28; Plin. 9, 39, 63, § 137; Plin. Ep. 5, 3, 6; 4, 28, 1.

3. nepös — Walde–Hofmann

nepös (inschr. -us; Zep- Cl, Loewe Prodr. 340, Heraeus ALL. 12, 60), -Ötis m. (rat und inschr. auch c. = *neptis nach sacerdös usw., Wackernagel Synt. II 26) „Enkel“; nachaugust: .,,Neffe*; dicht. ,,Nachkomme*'; übertr. „Nebenschößling des Weinstocks*; met. „Verschwender, Schwelger'* (s. unten) (seit Enn., rom.; nepötulus m. „das Enkelchen* Plaut. (-a f. Inschr., nepötellus m. Vita Caes. Arelj; - nepötor, -@rt … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. nepös, p. 1067]

In the wild

nepotes Tacitus, Annales 1.p8
nepos Ovid, Ibis 307
nepotem Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.6.5
NEPOS Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 15.28.1
nepotum Propertius, Elegiae 3.13.11
nepos Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.6.40.2

6 of 653 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. nepos (scan p. 461; entry #7425).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. nepös (scan pp. 1067-1068; entry #1840). Root candidates: *nep-, *neptlio-, *neptjo-.

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